Clues for the word "BELL"
We've had 245 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 378 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on September 25, 2026.
Definition of bell
- n. - A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.
- n. - A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.
- n. - Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower.
- n. - That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.
- n. - The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated.
- v. t. - To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat.
- v. t. - To make bell-mouthed; as, to bell a tube.
- v. i. - To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell.
- v. t. - To utter by bellowing.
- v. i. - To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar.
Referring Clues
- Dinger
- "Saved by the ___!"
- End-of-class signal
- Round sound
- 13-Down source
- Bicycle adjunct
- Negro Leagues legend Cool Papa ___
- Unit of nautical time
- Period ender
- Carillon part
- Class ender
- Telephone man
- End-of-a-round sound
- Ice cream truck's sound
- Ringer
- Class stopper
- Round end?
- Carillon component
- Man who found his calling?
- Steeple contents
- Ma of telephones
- Half-hour unit of nautical time
- Part of a jester's costume
- Round-ending signal
- Tintinnabulator
- Pepper variety
- Quasimodo rang one
- Telephony pioneer
- Bike accessory
- Kind of pepper or captain
- Wall Street closer
- Welcome sound in a boring class
- Dinner signal
- ___ the cat
- Clapper's place
- Inventor of the telephone
- Fight starter
- Bossy's ringer
- Church tower feature
- Last-minute "savior"
- Church-tower feature
- Round ender
- Brontë alias
- Church-tower item
- Liberty ___
- It starts the NYSE
- Statistical-curve shape
- School kids react to it
- It uses a clapper
- Boxer's cue
- "Saved by the ___"
- Guest's arrival signal
- Plath's "The ___ Jar"
- School warning system
- Cow accessory
- Type of pepper
- Liberty ___
- Door ringer
- Forever Stamp image
- "Saved by the ___"
- Dinner ringer
- Boxing ringer
- Telephone inventor or Lake Ontario swimmer
- Great Canadian inventor
- Telephone inventor, Alexander
- BCE word
- Cow locator
- Steeple feature
- Thing that might raise class consciousness?
- Front desk feature
- Hotel desk fixture
- Ornament shape
- Phone pioneer
- Telephone inventor
- Phone inventor
- Philadelphia attraction
- Watson's partner
- Watson's co-worker
- Quasimodo's concern
- Chime
- Symbol of liberty
- Plath's 'The ___ Jar'
- Watson's beckoner
- Trombone end
- Phone part
- Ding-dong producer
- See 112-Across
- Round starter
- Ring signal
- Ringing device
- Round-ending sound
- Collar attachment
- Handlebar attachment
- Accessory on the handlebars
- "Class dismissed" sound
- Boxing match sound
- Cat giveaway
- Pavlov's signal
- Sound signaling the start and end of class
- Boxing signal
- The "B" in "BCE"
- Cracked fixture across from Independence Hall
- Kind of buoy
- Toll producer
- Memorable Ameche role
- Liberty or dinner
- ____ jar:lab glass
- ___ jar: lab glass
- Toll provider?
- Gong
- School starter
- Start-of-trading signal
- Independence Hall fixture
- Pupil summons
- Telephone man?
- Student's saver
- Boxing ring producer
- Ding-dong maker
- A.G. ______ (Telephone inventor)
- School ringer
- Door jingler
- Producer of boxing rings
- Clarinet's flared end
- Tolling thing
- Patent holder for the telephone
- Big Ben, for one
- Campanile feature
- Alexander G. ___ (voted 9th greatest Canadian)
- Inventor associated with telephones
- Elementary school signal
- Liberty, for one
- It takes its toll
- Cat collar attachment
- School signal
- Something to ring
- End-of-class sound
- Thing to ring
- "The Red Violin" violinist Joshua
- Telephone pioneer
- Taco ___
- Liberty or dinner item
- Chiming instrument
- School alarm
- Ringing instrument (4)
- End-of-class alert
- Ringing instrument
- Alexander Graham ___
- Hemingway title word
- Inventor of the telephone, d. 1922
- Scottish-born inventor of the telephone, d. 1922
- Call law graduate up about drug
- Call a Brontë sister, secretly
- The telephone man
- See 4
- Inventor; the boxer's saviour, perhaps
- The frigate Lutine's hangs in Lloyd's of London
- Be left behind again by an inventor
- It can make the cat safer, one hears
- Telephone call?
- Alexander Graham?
- See 24
- Cricketer is on 50 again
- Inventor - clanger
- Inventor of the phone call?
- See 8
- Any Bront? sister roped into service?
- Metal ringer
- Not all of tummy fits in? It could be a warning!
- Alternative to knocker
- (After 9) Little music maker with awful band in awful place
- See 27
- Trumpet feature
- It ends a class
- Clock tower fixture
- Word with curve or captain
- Steeple fixture
- It's comparatively sound
- Inventor's three lives
- A ringer originally -- best ever and least likely
- Gertrude ___, 10 whose books include The Desert and the Sown (1907)
- ___ hooks, feminist theorist
- Archaic procedure used for excommunication and other churchly acts
- Live two lives as an inventor?
- You might 29 this attractive woman, we're told
- ___-bottoms
- Thing that rings in a clock tower
- It has a clapper
- Old AT&T symbol
- Thing with a clapper
- Boxing match signal
- Hollow metal object that rings
- See 43-Down
- At the boxing match, what one hears from the church?
- Marilyn ___ ( First person to swim Lake Ontario )
- Bout-starting sound
- Stock exchange signal
- Does this sound a note of familiarity?
- Bout ender
- Ball VIPs
- See 9 Across
- Christmas ornament
- Bike signal
- Word before pepper or tower
- Word before captain or curve
- Cow's pendant
- With 23 Across, traditional school sound
- Tolling place
- Be left again at the church
- Part of some buoys
- See 17-Down
- Steeple swinger
- Pet collar dangler
- Franklin half-dollar image
- Gong, e.g.
- Kristen of "The Good Place"
- Round signal
- Jingling thing
- Sleigh jingler
- Drooping flower feature
- Metaphor for clarity
- Currer ___, pseudonym of Charlotte Brontë
- "The ___ Jar"
- "Doesn't ring a ___"
- Dinner gong
- ___ peppers
- See 20-Across
- Wind instrument's flared end
- Male pseudonym used by all three Brontë sisters
- Tuba's flared end
- Church feature
- Something dingy?
- Liberty -
- Word with pepper or tower
- End-of-recess sound
- Alexander Graham?
- Producer of some wedding rings
- Word after "Tinker" or "Taco"
- Welcome sound for a bored student
- Class ring?
- End-of-round sound
- Big Ben, e.g.
- "Class is over!" sound
- Philadelphia's Liberty ___
- "Wedding ___ Blues"
- Device seen on a front desk
Last Seen In
- New York Times - September 25, 2026
- Mirror Mini - September 13, 2026
- Daily American - August 29, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - August 07, 2026
- New York Times - August 03, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - July 17, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 14, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - July 02, 2026
- Mirror Daily - June 25, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - June 16, 2026
- Daily American - March 04, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - January 19, 2026
- LA Times - December 22, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 19, 2025
- Daily American - December 15, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 25, 2025
- Daily American - October 05, 2025
- Mirror Mini - September 12, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 19, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 20, 2025
- New York Times - July 14, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 03, 2025
- LA Times - June 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 23, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 02, 2025
- LA Times - April 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 03, 2025
- Daily American - March 27, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 27, 2025
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